Approaching mediation through a trauma-informed lens provides the space for parties to fully participate in the mediation process and craft satisfactory resolutions. We’ll look at how the guiding principles of trauma-informed care correlate to the basic tenets of mediation and provide a framework for the parties’ engagement that avoids re-traumatization, techniques for minimizing secondary trauma to the mediator, understanding how our own trauma triggers could derail the process, and much more.